کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1161142 1490435 2013 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
From structuralism to neutral monism in Arthur S. Eddington's philosophy of physics
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم فیزیک و نجوم (عمومی)
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
From structuralism to neutral monism in Arthur S. Eddington's philosophy of physics
چکیده انگلیسی


• We show that neutral monism emerges from Eddington's philosophy of physics.
• The relation between Eddington's Quakerism and his structuralism.
• How Eddington was influenced by Bertrand Russell and the Gestalt psychology.

Arthur S. Eddington is remembered as one of the best astrophysicists and popularizers of physics in the twentieth century. Nevertheless, his stimulating speculations in philosophy produced serious disputes among philosophers of his time, his philosophy remaining linked to idealism and mysticism. This paper shows this label to be misleading and argues for the identification of Eddington's philosophy with a kind of neutral monism regained from Bertrand Russell and influenced by the Gestalt psychology. The concept of structure is fundamental to our argument for the existence of a veiled neutral monism in Eddington's ideas.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics - Volume 44, Issue 4, November 2013, Pages 500–512
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